The Day Is Done

The Day Is Done Literary Elements

Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View

Speaker (Longfellow)

Form and Meter

ABCB; trimeter

Metaphors and Similes

Similes:
-"A feeling of sadness and longing, / That is not akin to pain / And resembles sorrow only / As the mist resembles the rain"
-"The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night, / As a feather is wafted downward / From an eagle in his flight"

Metaphor:
-Longfellow uses the metaphor of desert Arabs quietly packing up their tents to suggest the soft way in which his cares will melt away after hearing the poem
-A corridor is a metaphor for time, and footsteps are a metaphor for the work poets produce as they navigate time.